"Silent Spring" is published 1962 "Over increasingly large areas of the United States spring now comes unheralded by the return of birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once ...

In "Silent Spring," Carson described in detail how chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides persisted in the environment long after they ... birds and other wildlife," writes Penn State entomologist ...

Falconry is an ancient sport going back thousands of years. In Shakespeare’s time, it was a way of putting food on the dinner ...

Within Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” are haunting words about a place where birds cease to sing. The cause behind the lack of singing birds was DDT, a chemical banned for agricultural ...

Sixty years ago, a talented biologist and writer working in Silver Spring, Md., published a book that changed the world for the better Rachel Carson was an unlikely revolutionary. For 16 years ...

Globally birds are under threat already: ... it has been a long time since I read any of “Silent Spring”, but to the best of my memory Rachel Carson never advocated a ban on DDT, ...

Under the EPA’s watch, unchecked insecticides are causing another ‘Silent Spring’ by Clay Bolt, opinion contributor - 05/20/23 12:00 PM ET ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Rachel Carson's book, "Silent Spring" was first published on September 27, 1962, and its impact caused a wave of change that is still felt 60 years later. Her voice was a ...

Blanket the world with poison, and there tend to be consequences. Is one the loss of a species vital to the food supply?